A new delayless sub-band filtering method for cancelling the effect of feedback path in Hearing aid systems

Performance of commonly used Hearing aid systems is degraded by the presence of acoustic feedback between loudspeaker and microphone. Prediction Error Method Adaptive Feedback Canceller (PEM-AFC) has been proposed recently that could attenuate the feedback effect. In this paper, we present a new delayless frequency-based sub-band filtering method for alleviating the effect of feedback path for the Hearing aid systems. The proposed method avoids sub-band distortions and has low computational complexity making it suitable for low-power cost-effective hearing aid system designs. Performances of the two methods are compared and simulation results are presented.